You're Not a Country, Africa: A Personal History of the African Present

by Pius Adesanmi

Book Overview

In this groundbreaking collection of essays Pius Adesanmi tries to unravel what it is that Africa means to him as an African, and by extension to all those who inhabit this continent of extremes. This is a question that exercised some of the continent's finest minds in the twentieth century, but which pan-Africanism, Negritude, nationalism, decolonisation and all the other projects through which Africans sought to restore their humanity ultimately...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143527541
• ISBN13: 9780143527541
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Penguin Global
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher